Creating a Profile for a Sony UBP-X700

Hi,

I'm trying to create a custom profile for this device because I've found it can't stream E_AC3. Instead I'm using AviDemux to convert to AC3 (Aften) at 448Kbps.

I've looked through the documentation and I'm trying to create a custom profile but it's not quite as simple as I thought

Does anyone either;

1. Have a Sony UBP-X700 where they've already created the custom profile which they could send to me?
2. Be interested in a custom profile if I persist with this and finally create one myself?

Thanks,

Fork.

I have the UBP-X700 and also need a custom profile for it. So bumping this thread. Thanks in advance for anybody's help with this.

[atc98092]

It's not too difficult to create a profile, but the syntax of the text is critical. I'm rather surprised that a Sony UHD player doesn't support E-AC3. Does it have a Netflix app within it? Because Netflix uses E-AC3, as do many online streaming sources.

Here's how a users-profile.xml file would be formatted. But what actually goes within the profile itself is wholly dependent on what you are attempting to do. I made an attempt to capture only E-AC3 audio, regardless of container. But chances are it might need more fine tuning, as this is only going to transcode the audio and pass the video through. If for some reason your video codec isn't supported, then it needs to be tweaked to capture just that particular video codec as well. save this text into a new file in the Serviio/config folder and name it user-profiles.xml. Then restart the Serviio process in the Serviio console to load the new file. Finally, select the new profile (named Sony UHD Player) for your player and give it a go. I haven't tested this code, so in case Serviio won't work after adding the file, remove it and let me know and I'll check it closer.

  Code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Profiles version="1.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="http://www.serviio.org/xsd/profiles/v/1.10/Profiles.xsd">
<Profile id="Sony_UHD" name="Sony UHD Player" extendsProfileId="bdp2013">
      
      <Transcoding>
         <!-- transcode HD video unsupported by device, transcode audio regardless of codec -->
         
         <!-- Remux H.264 video stream, transcode audio only -->
         <Video targetContainer="mpegts" targetACodec="ac3" >
             <Matches container="*" aCodec="eac3" />
            
         </Video>
      </Transcoding>
      <OnlineTranscoding>
         <Video targetContainer="applehttp"> <!-- dont transcode to ac3 -->
            <Matches container="mp4" />
            <Matches container="flv" vCodec="h264" />
         </Video>
      </OnlineTranscoding>
      <GenericTranscoding>
         <Video targetContainer="applehttp" targetVCodec="h264" targetACodec="aac" />
      </GenericTranscoding>
   </Profile>

</Profiles>

Dan - that was quick - Thank you!! I will give it a try and let you know.

Cheers,
David

It's a no-go. Launched a .mkv movie tonight with the new profile and it hung the screen with the spinning arrow, and had to power cycle the Blueray player.

Bummer,
David

[atc98092]

Weird. Unfortunately, it's extremely difficult to troubleshoot without having the device. About the only thing I can think of is to enable detailed logging, attempt to play the movie, then upload that log here to see if there's something amiss in the transcoding line that I've overlooked.

FYI - I was having numerous codecs not play on my sony until I tried the Sharp TV profile in serviio. Now every thing plays fanatasti!!! Every file type, even ATMOS files (eg. Appple TV Disney etc. ) all on my legacy 5.1 surround system!